S4 E22 - My Funemployment Era (GOTY Edition)

About this episode

The hosts discuss their favorite games of 2025, including Pokémon and the challenges of filing taxes.

It's that time again! The HLTB Podcast hosts are back to discuss our very favorite games that we played in 2025! Join us for a radical retrospective, in which we talk repeatedly about Pokémon, commiserate about the agony of filing taxes, and attempt to pronounce Nietzsche quotes. Which games will come out on top? Tune in to find out! HowLongToBeat forums - ⁠https://howlongtobeat.com/forum⁠ Discord – ⁠https://discord.gg/v5F26Dk⁠ Email - ⁠hltbpodcast@gmail.com⁠ Music – Ian Edward (intro/outro), Abatage (incidental), call me lethargy. (incidental) Graphic design – M4thew and Matt 0:00:00 - Intro 0:01:03 - Beaten 0:45:40 - Retired 0:52:41 - Playing 1:37:53 - 2025 Game of the Year 2:28:29 - Collections Game 2:41:44 - Goodbye! Games Mentioned: Diallo: First Day at Maze Corp (itch), Pokémon Legends: Z-A (Switch 2), Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time (PC) Lia: The Servers Are Shutting Down in 24 Hours but My Pull Rate's Been Set to 0.0001?! (PC), Dinner With An Owl (PC), Let's Go There and Wander Nowhere (PC), BirdLingo (PC), Baba Files Taxes (PC), Devil Express (PC), Birdle, Broforce, Hairdresser Simulator, Max Payne, Tower of Fantasy, Balatro (Mobile), Satan Loves Cake (PC)…

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt, Lia

Topics covered

• Game of the Year
• retrospective
• video games
• Pokémon
• taxes

Keywords

• 2025
• games
• retrospective
• podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Pokémon, Mobile, PS4, Switch, Quasar Blaster, BirdLingo, Wingspan, PC, Engare, Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

Books & works: My Funemployment Era, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, Let's Go There and Wander Nowhere, Baba Files Taxes, Satan Loves Cake, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Where's My Seat (, While Waiting, Elder Scrolls Online, Professor Layton and the Last Specter

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